Is this massacre the last straw or just another news story?

[Starboard Tack]

I posted earlier, asking if this was America's "Dunblane". I guess not too many knew what I meant, but for those interested here it is.
In 1996 this shooting of 16 schoolchildren and their teacher spawned new laws in the UK banning sale and possession of handguns.

A gunman walked into the school gym at the Dunblane Primary School in the morning and sprayed bullets from four weapons at random, killing 16 children and their teacher. One of the 12 other children who were wounded later died in hospital.

One student who survived the carnage later told UK media: "We heard these gunshots from the gym and looked round and thought he must be firing at a target or something then he came out through a fire exit and started firing at our huts and we were all petrified."

Most of the child victims were only 5 or 6 years old.
http://www.ibtimes.com/connecticut-school-shootings-recall-1996-dunblane-horror-scotland-938451

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	Will this event lead to a re-examination of RKBA?
	1 (17%)
	Will the issue just go away until the next mass shooting?
	5 (83%)
	Will new effective laws be passed?
	0 (0%)
	Will new ineffective laws be passed?
	0 (0%)
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[msongs]

1. once the funerals are over its back to worshipping violence in the USA - TV, movies, games etc nt

[MrSlayer]

2. ^^This^^

Everyone is sad for a day or two and then it's business as usual.

[hrmjustin]

3. What does RKBA mean?

[baldguy]

5. It's shorthand for the supposed "right" to keep & bear arms.

Which some heartless, soulless people construe to mean they have a "right" to have the capacity to commit mass murder.

[Starboard Tack]

6. Right to Keep and Bear Arms. The Second Amendment to the Constitution.

[baldguy]

4. If gun owners had any human decency....

But they don't.

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. Unlike any of the previous incidents, my Facebook feed has just blown up with vociferous gun control

arguments, up to and including repeal of the 2nd Amendment from people that you'd least expect that from. It's running something like 95% immediate and comprehensive reform of current gun laws, and massive increase in enforcement.

People have had enough.

This is a tipping point, and I never say such things lightly. I am very conservative in my political predictions, meaning I usually take the position that not much will change. For me to say that this event will produce a movement and massive transformation of our gun culture takes a lot, but I see it. The pro-gun arguments, which - I'm fine to admit - had won the day for the last 20 years, are over. the gravy days of the NRA are over. People are fucking furious, and it's political and conscious.

[doc03]

8. In a week it will be business as usual, nothing ever gets done

as long as money controls government

[petronius]

9. On this one, you can put me at around 3.25

Some sort of new laws or policies, and not token nor placebo - but "effective"? That will depend on how you define the word...

[Hoyt]

10. Good to hear. I wish some of the other gun owners would actually demonstrate responbility.

[Agnosticsherbet]

11. For me its a last straw. Liberalism and Progressivism is incompatible with RKBA in America.

The second amendment can no longer be allowed to trump all other amendments.

Guns and gun ownership must be regulated. We can not allow the militia to murder children.